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Wellness culture : how the wellness movement has been used to empower, profit and misinform / by Stephanie Alice Baker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Stephanie Alice, author.
- Series:
- SocietyNow
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Influence (Psychology).
- Health promotion--Economic aspects.
- Health promotion.
- Health promotion--Marketing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2022]
- Summary:
- Stephanie Alice Baker traces the emergence of wellness culture as a trillion-dollar industry, situating the wellness industry in a historical and cultural context, examining how the internet has altered our relationship to wellness and the popular assumption that the internet has democratised knowledge and culture.
- Contents:
- Cover
- WELLNESS CULTURE
- WELLNESS CULTURE: How the Wellness Movement has Been Used to Empower, Profit and Misinform
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- 1. What Is Wellness Culture?
- The Ancient Origins of Wellness
- Wellness, a Modern Concept for a Modern World
- Wellness as an Alternative to Mainstream Medicine
- 2. The Countercultural Origins of Wellness Culture
- The Long Civil Rights Movement: Self-Care as a Political Act
- The Hippie Movement
- The Antipsychiatry Movement
- The Human Potential Movement
- 3. From the Wellness Movement to the Wellness Industry
- The Pioneers of the Wellness Movement
- Halbert L. Dunn, the "father of wellness"
- John W. Travis
- Donald B. Ardell
- Bill Hettler
- Wellness Enters the Mainstream
- Worksite Wellness: manufacturing a more productive workforce.
- The Fitness Industry
- 4. Wellness Gurus, Internet Celebrities and Influencers
- What Is a Wellness Guru?
- The Crisis of Expertise
- Experience as Expertise
- Origin Tales and Conversion Stories
- The Self as a Reflexive Project
- Self-Help Gurus
- The Self-Help Industry
- The Power of Positive Thinking
- The New Thought Movement
- The Law of Attraction
- The Dark Side of Positive Thinking
- The American Dream
- Reinventing the Self
- Celebrity Wellness Gurus
- The Search for Spiritual Guidance
- Gwyneth Paltrow, the Queen of Clean
- Oprah's Prosperity Gospel
- Wellness Gurus and the Internet
- What is a Microcelebrity?
- Wellness Influencers
- 5. Wellness as a Gateway to Misinformation, Disinformation and Conspiracy
- Medical Misinformation Prior to the Internet
- Homeopathy
- Welcome to the Internet
- Wellness Influencers as Conduits of Misinformation
- The COVID-19 Infodemic
- COVID-19, a Wicked Problem
- Who Can You Trust?.
- 'Do Your Own Research'
- COVID-19 Conspiracies and Conspirituality
- Alt. Health Influencers
- The Purity Paradigm
- The Anti-Vaccination Movement
- Liberty and Purity: The Body as a Site of Resistance
- From 'Lone Wolves' to Coordinated Online Movements
- Platform Affordances and the Architecture of Disinformation
- Who Profits from Disinformation?
- Tackling Disinformation Online
- 6. The Future of Wellness as a Cultural Pursuit
- ENDNOTES
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Alice Baker, Stephanie Wellness Culture
- ISBN:
- 9781802624670
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